Truck-bolster for railway-cars.



1. '/1. PILCHER.

,TRUCK BOLSTER FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPLlATIoN FILED om. 15, 1914.

1,147,748. Patented July 27,' 1915.

UNITED s'IfA donn A; ritenne, or Bonnema, VIRGINIA.

TRUCK-BOLSTEIR FOB RAILWAY-CARS.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1%5'.

Application filed October 15, 1914. Serial No. 866,810.

' To all whom t mayiconcem:

. Be it known thatY I, JOHN A. PILCHER, a citizen of the 'United States, residing at Roanoke, in the .county of Roanoke and State of Virginia, have invented cert-ain new and useful Improvements in Truck-Holsters for Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specication. l l

This invention relates to holsters for car trucks and the principal object of the same is to provide a` transverse bolster member having recesses in the body thereof for clearing the Wheels, brake parts, etc., of the car truck.

Other objects are to provide a composite truck holster of simple design and 'economical sections to fulfil the peculiar demands of certain typesv of trucks.

With these general objects and others in view the invention consists in the formation and combination of parts as will he hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l shows in plan View a'truck having the bolster of. my in vention applied thereto and Fig'. 2 a side elevation partly in section, of the same, the sectional portion being takenv on the line AB,

Y Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an endA elevation, partly 2, axles 3, and side frames si..

in section ofthe same, the sectional portion being taken on the line CD, Fig. l. Fig. l is a broken plan view of an alternate design of bolster shown separate from the other truck parts.

, Referring to the drawings where the same parts are similarly designated wherever they occur, l represents the truck ha vino; wheels shown is of the six-Wheel type and consequently has two transverse holsters 5 and 5, which extend from side rameto side frame between the Wheels 2, and are supported on the side frames at the ends by means of the springs 6.

Extending from -transverse holster 5 to transverse bolster 5 and spanning the middle axle of the truck is a longitudin al holster 7. 'which carries the truck center plate 8.

In various types of siX-Wheeltrucks it is necessary that one or more of the springs i3 in each group be located sligl'itly in fro-nt of the end truck wheels, so that the transverse holsters and 5a may not he made oi5 a uuiorm section, syn'nnetrir-.al about the transverse center line EF, (see Fig. l), as would naturally be desired.v but must have portions of the .metal cut away at 9 and l() to form The truck recesses for the Wheels. It is also sometimes necessary or desirable to cut away portion as at llto clear the brake levers or other parts. ConsequentlyY the main portions of the transverse holsters 5 and 5 usually follow a. center line passing between, the wheels, corresponding to the line Gli,

(see F ig 1,' l While the holster arms or main spring seat portions `usually extend out wardly atan angle or are passed around outside ot' the end wheels to reach the necessary location of thelsprings. It has heretofore been the'practice in such cases to cast in tegral or to rigidly fasten together the transverse holsters and 5 and the longitudinal holster 7 in order to provide means for withstanding the torque set up in the transverse holsters about the line EF, F ig. 1. An illust-ration of such a bolsterimay be seen by referring to my previous Patent #1,095,594.

In the present invention I am enabled to avoid this rigidity of holster construction hy providing seats 12 on the transversebolsters 5 and 5 for the endsof the longitudinal holster '7, these seats extending out from the main portion of the transverse bolster members and being so disposed that the cenot the load from the ends ofthe longituolaa-l holsteimember will he transferred to the transverse. holsters at a point or points located on lthe line ERFg. 1. Byso constructing the transverse bolster members and the longitudinal bolster member any cuts or recesses may be made in the transverse members to accommodate Wheels,hrake parts, etc., Without inducing any turning or twisting eiect in the transverse holsters about the line'EF, and 'if the sections are made sufliciorrt to carry the load, the fact that the center lines thereof' are oiset from the center line FiF of the loading points will have no effect on the equilibrium of the parts, under load. 'It will be, understood that this construction does not eliminate all torque from the transverse holsters, hut only the torque about the line EF which normally tendsto produce instability of the parts. In order to provide ample strength, therefore, for the main portions of the transverse holsters that are disposed about the line vGH or similar lines offset from EF, the section of the main portion is made of box shape so as the better to resist the twist and the bending and at the same time to torni a section that will readily join with the open section oi" thus being enabled to make the transverse land longitudinal bolster membersseparate and without being rigidly fastened together, and at the same time reaching around the end Wheels to the springs 6, I provide a bolas they are disposed in series with the main springs 6.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 I have shown a desirable'farrange'ment of the longitudinal, or .center bolster, the same being made in the 'form of an- H, the parallel members 14 thereof-'extending longitudinally of the truck and inside of the wheels and side frames, the transverse member 15 -of the H being disposed transversely of the truck and having the center plate 8 either cast integral with, or secured to this transverse, or center portion. The 'parallel' members 14 are bumped where they cross over the m1ddle axle and the transverse member `15 1s made of inverted U-shape in cross section,-the legs of the U extending downward along each side of .the middle axle. The customary slde bearings 16 are provided on the humps of the parallel members, springs 13 will now be seen in that they form a cushion for the side bearing blow before it passes to` the main transverse bolsters 5 and 5, and the side bearing blow will not be so apparent on the main springs 6.

In Fig. 4 I have shown an alternate design of longitudinal bolster 7 which is a simple beam extending from the transverse bolster member 5 to the transverse bolster member 5", the seats 12 on the transverse members being located at the centers. This longitudinal bolsteris also humped up. over the middle axle and is preferably made box shape in cross section. AThe functions of the various parts with reference to the torque in the transverse bolsters is the same in this arrangement as in that previously described.

It will be understood that variousE deviations within the scope of the claimsy might be made in the parts as I have shown and described them without departing from the spirit of my invention.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim is: Y

1. A transverse/ truck bolster having spring seats at the ends thereof, and having a load-supporting seat. intermediate the said spring seats, said load supporting seat and said spring seats beingin the same line transversely of the truck, a portion of the said transverse bolster being disposed about a line and the value of the v slightly removed longitudinally of the truck from the line of said seats, substantially as described.

2. A transverse truck bolster having extensions from the main portion thereof adapted to form spring seats and load sup-l porting-seats, all of said seats being in the transversely of the truck with the main.

portion of said transverse bolster and all o 'f saidseats being located on a line transversely of the truck.

4. A transverse truck bolster having extensions from the main portion thereof adapted to form spring seats and load supporting seats, all of said seats being in the same line transversely of the truck, and

said line being removed, longitudinally of the truck, from the center line, transversely of the truck, of the main portionv of said transverse bolster, the said vmain portion of ,the transverse bolster being box-shaped in cross section.

5. A truck bolster having two transverse members and a longitudinal member, seats onsaid transverse members adapted to support the ends of said longitudinal member, said transverse members having spring seats adjacent the ends thereof and slightly removed, longitudinallyv of the truck, from the main portionof said transversemem'- bers, the said spring seats and the said seats for the longitudinal members being in\the same line transversely of the truck,

6. A transverse truck bolster havingmn extension longitudinally of the truck from the main portion vthereof adapted to formi a load supporting seat, the said transverse bolster being provided with ,-sugpporting ilo means at points removed longitudinally of the truck from the main portion of said bolster and substantially .inr line, transversely of the truck, with said load supporting seat.

7. A truck bolster having two transversel memb'ers and a longitudinal member, seats on said transverse members removed longitudinally of the truck from the main portionof said transverse members and adapted. to receive and support the ends of the said longitudinal member, and springs interposed between the said transverse members and the ends of the said longitudinal f'l'members' and a longitudinal member, seats member, said longitudinal member being of H-shape in plan view, the parallel members of the H being disposed longitudinally of the truckfand between the .middle wheels.

8. 'A truck bolster having two transverse on said transverse members adapted to reeeive the' ends of said longitudinal member,

" andii springs interposed between the said transverse. me

longitudinal member,

said longitudinal member being of H- hape in plan view, the

parallel members of the H being disposed longitudinally of the truck and within the middle Wheels, and being bumped up over thermiddle axle, and side bearings on the bumped up portion of the parallel members 9. A transverse bolster forv six-wheel trucks having its main portion extending transversely of the truck and between the end and middle truck wheels, and having the endsvof-said transverse bolster extendbers and the ends of the said.

'ing longitudinally of the truck alongside.'

to receive andL support the ends of the said longitudinal member.

In testlmony whereof I affix my signature 4 in presence of two witnesses.

' JOHN A. PILCHER.

' llvitnesses:

H. B.' WADE, lW. B.l Knee. 

